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Best Mover Advantage

I found an interesting posting today. It is a side note about how Blizzard, creator of World of Warcraft (WOW), was looking for mobile gaming professionals to develop new games.

While just about all 'gaming' companies are looking for mobile gaming professionals, the fact that Blizzard is starting to move in that direction means that mobile gaming will soon reach a level of quality it has not seen before. Blizzard is not a first mover in the gaming areas that they choose to enter. However, Blizzard creates some of the best games for those areas. Quality, "smarts", etc... It definitely will not be Tetris on your phone.

However, with Blizzard's quality, comes a "no wine before its time" mentality.... It could be quite a while before that Blizzard mobile game comes out... :) However, I am sure that the 8.5 million users of World of Warcraft will be waiting with baited breath for the release. If not bring their mobile/wireless business with them to the "official" Blizzard wireless provider (ala Cingular ...errr... the new AT&T for the iPhone)... or at the very least significantly boost their non-messaging data usage with their wireless providers of choice.

Technorati Tags: Telecommunications, Telecom, Blizzard, mobile gaming, World of Warcraft

  Posted by jmyers on May 10, 2007 8:00 AM |

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